Martin Baxter wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I can sail a racing boat any time I want. You'll never be able to
wake up at Merchant's Row, or Pulpit Harbor, or Long Point, or
Hadley's, or the Sassafras, or the Wye, or the Alligator River, or the
Little Snake, or Cabbage Key, or any one of several hundred other
places we've been to.


We get a guy in our bay a few times every summer with a PDQ, scoots
right up to the head of the bay and anchors in about 4 feet of water, he
never has a problem with idiots anchoring too close to him. I envy both
the ability to get into water that shallow and the avoidance of the
jerks!


My favorite is one:
http://www.sv-loki.com/Along_the_Way/Hadley.jpg
A NY Yacht Club cruise and a race ending at Wood's Hole meant that
several hundred boats decided to stay at Hadley's, where normally a
dozen or so might stay. We snuck up this little cove and double
anchored in about 4-5 feet. Every 10 minutes a boat would head our
way and then realize it wasn't going to work. The boat on the right
foreground about as close in as a keel boat could get.

One time we anchored in Newfound Harbor (near Key West) and I hopped
overboard to clear out a clogged seacock. I had flippers on, and the
keel came down on a flipper and held it on the bottom a while. I
guess we cut it a bit too close that time.